Award-Winning Playwright Layon Gray shares his inspiring story of overcoming failure in Los Angeles to find success as a playwright in New York City. He discusses a pivotal low point in his career and how it taught him valuable lessons about producing and building an audience.
Layon discusses how he finds inspiration for his plays by researching forgotten histories. He details an "aha moment" that led him to create impactful works bringing the past to life, like his play about the Tuskegee Airmen.
You will be inspired and motivated by how he overcame all the naysayers to make the play an NYC hit for 5 years running.
In this episode you will also discover Leon daily habits and tools as a successful creative entrepreneur.
(Originally aired 6/13/14)
